Basic Details
Surname
Scholfield
Forenames
Herbert
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. He left school in 1906, worked for a brewery in Shibden Valley outside Halifax and then emigrated to Vancouver where he enlisted in August 1914. He developed heart trouble in July 1916 and was invalided to the Canadian Convalescent Camp in Epsom, dying there at the Manor War Hospital of a heart attack almost 2 years later without returning to the front. His parents buried him in Cardiff where they were living.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
England
Town of death
Epsom
Country of burial
Wales
Town of burial
Cardiff
Year of death
1918
Month of death
April
Day of death
11
Age at death
25
Manner of death as stated
Not stated on this memorial
Manner of death reference
Other